GSA expands TDR to remove dreaded PRC from Schedules

GSA is expanding its Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) program to new cloud SINs with a Schedule-wide rollout coming in fiscal 2026. The cloud expansion affected 62 special item numbers (SINs) covering products and cloud-related services. Participation in TDR will be mandatory for all SIN holders after the rollout.

TDR collects granular pricing and sales data on purchases made through GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule program. By leveraging these insights, GSA aims to improve the efficiency of federal buying, foster better competition, and ensure taxpayer value, and most important for contractors, removes the dreaded Price Reduction Clause that ties Schedule contract pricing to commercial sales practices.

This also accelerates contract award and modification through streamlined price negotiation, removing the requirement to submit extensive commercial sales practices data, including invoices. Instead, contractors report prices-paid data, which GSA instead uses to assess whether pricing is fair and reasonable.

Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum emphasized that “Transactional Data Reporting will provide the federal government with the critical and essential market intelligence to help aid the government’s effort to create a transparent, optimized and streamlined marketplace for goods and services.”